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Fulbright Scholars & Scholarships

General Information

Salem State is frequently honored with having the highest number of Fulbright U.S. Scholars within our classification. Salem State was named a 2024-2025 Fulbright Top Producing Institution. Our faculty, staff, and students have been awarded Fulbright grants to research and teach in places like India, Chile, Liberia, Finland, United Kingdom, Jordan, Mexico, Greece, India, Egypt, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Korea, Russia, Italy, Nicaragua, Estonia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Dominican Republic.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide. 

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has given more than 380,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, professionals and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

 

Types of Grants

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

The Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study, conduct research, and/or teach English abroad. If you are senior or recent graduate from Salem State and would like to apply, please contact the campus Fulbright Program advisors, Vanessa Ruget and Michele Louro. 

 

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

The Scholar Program sends American scholars, artists, faculty, and professionals abroad to lecture and/or conduct research for up to a year. A variety of programs are available. For more information, please contact Fulbright U.S Scholar Program advisors Vanessa Ruget and Michele Louro. 

 

Salem State University-Affiliated Fulbright Awardees, 1989-2025

Fulbright Specialist

Buttner, Joseph

Biology

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2016-2017

Program: Fulbright Senior Specialist

Program Country: Liberia

Project Title: Expand Aquaculture Interest and Activity in Liberia

 

Carroll, Greg

Interdisciplinary Studies

Scholar Type:  U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2015-2016

Program:  Fulbright Specialist

Program Country:  Liberia

Project Title:  Youth Resiliency

 

Kessler, Zoë

School of Social Work

Academic Year: 2022-2023

Program: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Latvia

Project Title: The Impact of Deinstitutionalizing Policies on Children in Care: A Latvian Perspective

 

McArdle, John

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2022-2023

Program: Specialist Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Kosovo

Grant Type: Specialist

 

Ould, Patricia

Sociology

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2001-2002

Program: Fulbright Senior Specialist Program

Program Country: India

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: Transnational Issues in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies

 

Pomerantz, Francesca

Education

Scholar Type:  U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2017

Program:  Fulbright Specialist

Program Country:  Albania

 

Shwedel, Allan (Rocky)

Education  

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2014-2015

Program: Specialist Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Ukraine

Grant Type: Fulbright Specialist

Project Title: Using Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

 

Vega, Gina

Management

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year:  2010

Program: Fulbright Senior Specialist Program

Program Country: Russia

 

Vega, Gina

Management

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year:  2012

Program: Fulbright Senior Specialist Program

Program Country: United Kingdom

Fulbright US Scholar

Ardon, Kenneth

Economics

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2023-2024

Award: Business Administration and Economics

Program Country: Turkey

Grant Type: Lecturer

Project Title: Teaching Economics in Turkey

 

Cervoni, Cleti

Education

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2007-2008

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: United Kingdom

Grant Type: Research

Project Title: Understanding the Culture of Gender Positioning in Science Classrooms

 

Corbett, Caitlin

Dance

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2008-2009

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Finland

Grant Type: Lecturing/Research

Project Title, Lecturing: Teaching American Modern Dance

Project Title, Research: Exploration of Contemporary Finnish Dance

 

Coughlan, Elizabeth

Political Science

Scholar Type:  Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Academic Year: 1989-90; renewed 1990-91

Program: Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Program Country: Poland

Grant Type: Research

Project Title: Polish Military

 

Coughlan, Elizabeth

Political Science

Scholar Type:  Fulbright German Studies Seminar

Academic year:  June 1998

Project Title:  Germany and Central Europe

 

Crow, Kathi

Mathematics

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2016-2017

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Jordan

Grant Type: Teaching

Project Title: Inquiry Based Learning and Modern Algebra

 

Dietrich, Sarah

Secondary and Higher Education

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2006-2007

Program: Core U.S. Scholars Program

Award title: Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Program Country: Mexico

Grant Type: Teaching/Research

Project Title: Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Foreign Language/Teaching and Learning English in Mexico: Language and Literacy Development in a Second Language

 

Duclos-Orsello, Elizabeth

Interdisciplinary Studies

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2009-2010

Program: Core U.S. Scholars Program

Program Country: Luxembourg

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: American Identities: Understanding the Origins and Shape of This Thing Called America

 

Duclos-Orsello, Elizabeth

American Studies

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2015-2016

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Greece

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: American Studies and Public Humanities in Greece

 

Gonzalez, Melanie

Secondary and Higher Education

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2023-2024

Program: Fulbright-García Robles Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Program Country: Mexico

Grant Type: Lecturer, Research

Project Title: Centering EFL Teachers’ Habits of Noticing in Reflective
Practices

 

Hallahan, Thomas

Theatre and Speech Communication

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2011-2012

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Jordan

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: Hearing Healthcare in Jordan: Policy and Practice Issues

 

Hudson, Christopher

Social Work

Scholar Type:

Academic Year: 2002-2003

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: China

Grant Type: Lecturing/Research

Project Title: Lecturing and Research on International Social Policy

 

Hudson, Christopher

Academic Year:  2017-2018

Program:  U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country:  Czech Republic

Grant Type:  Research

Project Title:  Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization in the Czech Republic: A Study of Decision-Making Processes and Outcomes

 

Kiernan, Julie
Theatre and Speech Communication

Academic Year: 2023-2024

Program: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Bulgaria

Grant Type: Lecturer

Project Title: Telling Your Story: Using theatre to address issues of identity

and connection through storytelling

 

Louro, Michele

History

Scholar Type: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Academic Year: 2008-2009

Program: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: India

Grant Type: Research

Project Title: Remapping Indian Anti-Colonial Nationalism: Jawaharlal Nehru and Cross-cultural Networking, 1927-1955

 

Louro, Michele

Scholar Type: U.S. Fulbright-Nehru Scholar 

Academic Year: 2020 

Program: Scholar

Program Country: India  

Project Title: The Red Scare in India 

 

Newell, Zachary

Library, Instructional and Learning Support

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2011-2012

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Egypt

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: Regional Identity, Global Perspective: The Art of Engagement at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

 

Ni, Mary

Education, Counseling and Guidance

Scholar Type:  U. S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2016-2017

Program:  Core Fulbright U. S. Scholar Program

Program Country:  China

Grant Type:  Education

Host:  Northeastern Normal University

 

Pierce, Michelle

Adolescent Education and Leadership

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2008-2009

Program:  Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Chile

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: Training for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language

 

Peary, Alexandria

Creative Writing/Rhetoric  

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar 

Academic Year: 2024-2025 

Award: Fulbright US Scholar Award All Disciplines (24386-DE) 

Program Country: Germany 

Grant Type: Researcher 

Project Title: Requiem from the Pforzheim Archives 

 

Pham, Van

Economics

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2015-2016

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Vietnam

Grant Type: Lecturing

Project Title: Economic Education and Development in Vietnam

 

Ruget, Vanessa

Political Science

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: Multi-year grant beginning Spring 2017

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Kyrgyzstan 

Grant Type: Flex Research

Project Title: Return Migration to Kyrgyzstan: A Political Perspective

 

Ruget, Vanessa 

Politics, Policy and International Relations 

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar 

Academic Year: 2024-2025 

Award: 24547-EE|All Disciplines 

Program Country: Estonia 

Grant Type: Teaching/Research 

Project Title: Understanding the effects of Russia's passportization policies in Estonia and beyond 

 

Silva, David

Linguistics

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 1989-1990

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Korea

 

Sweet, Diane

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Program Country: Mexico

Project Title: Effective Methods for Teaching Writing in the University Setting

 

Tschakert, Norbert 

Accounting and Finance 

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar 

Academic Year: 2024-2025 

Award: 24194-DO (All Disciplines) 

Program Country: Dominican Republic 

Grant Type: Research 

Project Title: Curtailing Corruption in the Dominican Republic  

 

Walker, Pierre

English

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2012-2013

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Italy

Grant Type: Lecturing/Research

Project Title: American Literature, American Identity, Henry James and National Identity; The Complete Letters of Henry James

 

Whitlow, Julie

English

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2003-2004

Program: Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Program Country: Nicaragua

Grant Type: Teaching

Project Title: Teacher Training to Three Universities in Managua to Write Curriculum and Provide Professional Development to English Department Faculty

 

Fulbright Student Grantees

Utne, Kelsey

Academic Year: 2012-2013

Program Country: India

Project Title: Toward Global Goals: Assessing Self-Assessment Practices of Primary Education NGO Initiatives in India

 

Whipple, Emily

Academic Year:  2018-2019

Program Country: India

Fulbright International Education Administrators Program (IEA)

Esterberg, Kristin

Provost, Academic Affairs

Scholar Type: U.S. Scholar

Academic Year: 2014-2015

Program: Fulbright International Education Administrators Program (IEA)

Program Country: India

Grant Type: Seminar

Project Title: Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar

Visiting Fulbright Scholars Hosted by Salem State

Fouzia Lamkhanter

Humanities

Academic Year:  2020-2021

Project: Fostering Students’ Autonomy:  The Gate Towards Mastering Language Skills

University: Hassan II University, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences

Home Country: Morocco

 

Tetyana Pimonenko

Environmental Sciences

Academic Year: 2018-2019

Project: Green Bonds Market (GBM): Challenges and Opportunities for Ukraine on the World’s Leading Countries' Experience

Home University: Sumy State University

Country:  Ukraine

 

Houceine Bouya

Chemistry

Academic Year:  2017-2018

Home University: Ibn Zohr University

Country: Morocco

 

Leticja Gusho

Education

Academic Year:  2017-2018

Home University: Tirana University

Country: Albania

 

Elka Todorova

Education

Academic Year:  1998-1999

Home University: Varna Free University

Country: Bulgaria

 

Muharem Cerabregu

Geography

Home University: University of Kosovo

Country: Kosovo

 

Sylvaine Drei

Language

Home University: University of Maine

Country: France

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